Today's Reflection: January 26
The joy that compassion brings is one of the
best-kept secrets of humanity…
a secret known to only a very few people,
a secret to be rediscovered over and over again.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
“Peace!” the angel announced. But peace is as much task as gift. Only if
we become calm as earth, fluid as water, and blazing as fire ...
True to the name by which we were called in 1824,
the heart of our mission of Bon Secours continues to be "good help,"
calling us to ...
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen
Let us be united;
Let us speak in harmony;
Let our minds apprehend alike.
Common be our prayer,
Common be the end of our assembly;
Common be our resolution;
Common be ...
"We look with uncertainty
beyond the old choices for
clear-cut answers
to a softer, more permeable aliveness
which is every moment
at the brink of death;
for something new is being ...
Our deepest calling is to grow into
our own authentic self-hood…
to find our path of authentic
service in the world.
~Parker Palmer
I was walking down the street in New York City one day, when I heard a woman's voice saying, "I was very sick all winter." ...
Waiting tests our grit and faith, and anything else we have on the line. We activate every nerve in us to move, to do something--and ...
From the deep well of silence, joy is
constantly bubbling up and flowing out.
Practice reveals that we are immersed in that joy.
Practice also reveals what is ...
The fragrance always remains
on the hand that gives the rose.
Mahatma Gandhi
Find a place inside you where there is joy,
and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell
Gratitude is a flower that
blooms in noble souls.
Pope Francis
When we understand how precious each moment is,
we can treat each breath, each moment,
as a newborn baby.
Michelle McDonald
Out of intense complexities,
intense simplicities emerge.
Winston Churchill